Device for transmitting power.



PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907. if

E. J. L'ANE. DEVICE'FOR TRANSMITTING POWER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 2. 1906.

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WITNESSES:

' UNITED STATES v ENOOH J. LANE, or WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA, -assrcinon F ONE-HALF To;

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W. R. GILMORE, OF WILLIAMS, CALIFORNIA. 4 v

- DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING POWER.

Specification (fl 181515918 Patent.

' Patented. Feb. 26, 1907'.

Application and Auguit2,1906. SerialNo. azaate. 4

To will iohom it may concern: {"Be'it known that I, ENOCH J. LANE, a citizen ot' the United States, residing at Wil-' hams, .in the county of (Jolusa and State of I California, have invented new and useful Improvements. in Devices for Transmitting fewer, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device which is especially designed to increase power in transmission. Y It consists in a combination of parts and in details 01 construction, which I11 Le more fully explained by rei'erence to the accompanying drawings, in which- 1* igure 1 is a vertical sectional view through the device. Fig. 2 is a side view, partly sectioned. I

My invention may be applied in various ways; but whatever form it may take the load is carried upon anaxle which is at one side either below or above the center, and the power is applied at a point distant lrom the center and upon the opposite side from the said axle.

I have here illustrated my inventionas applied to driving a wheel A, having an axle 2, which, as here shown, is located below the center 3 of the wheel. This axle is mounted within a hollow roller 4, having suflicient in-' terior diameter to admit the axle, whichis here shown as surrounded by balls or rollers 5 to provide an antifrictional hearing betweenthe two. The wheel A has a hollow hub 6, which may have an antii'rictional collar7 within it. a v l 8 are rollers fitting within the hub and s0- disposed with relation to the roller'5 that their peripheries will roll around the inside of the collar or hub, and they serve as guides and auxiliaries to said roller, so that the wheel and its hub are maintained in proper relation with the rollers. These rollers are turnable upon shafts or spindles, as at 9, the ends of said spindles fitting into. exterior disks or flanges 11, which close the ends of thehub and form thrust-bearings, by which the rollers are prevented from shifting outof place endwise. 1

. In the present construction powerwill be applied from the opposite side of thecenter *fromtlieroller 4.- n the present case'I have shown it as applied by means' ofa sprocketwheel 10, which may bedriven by a chain passing over it from any suitable source of power, and the operation may be illustrated as follows: if the bottom periphery of the wheel be taken as, a fulcrum-point and a weight be carriedupon the shalt 2,,which rests within the roller 4, and the latter travcling upon the lower interior of the hollow huh or shell, the power applied at the periphery of sprocket 10 will by reason of the greater distance n'om 2 to'1u thanlrom the center 3 act to revolve the roller 4 within the hub with great facility. If. the wheel be a bearing-wheelas,1orinstance, in a tractionengine-and the weight oi the engine be supln'such a case undershot water-wheel, the position of the roller 4 and shaft? will be changed to'the upper side of the hollow hub, so that the shaft will be nearerto the top of the wheel, and the power being applied to the under side of the wheel will act to rotate the roller and transmit power through it, a suitable connection being made with the wheel for this .purpose. l I

having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a device for transmitting power, the

' combination of a' wheel having a hollow hub,

disks closing the 'ends of the hub, a roller of less diameter than the interior of the hub and contained therein at one side of the center thereof, means for applying power to the opposite side of the wheel, and independent guide-rollers within the hollow hub and havin shafts turnably mounted in the end disks,

said disks forming thrust bearings to prevent endwise movement of the guide-rollers.

2.. In a device for transmitting power a wheel having a hollow hub, a roller turnable withinand in contact with the interior of the hub, said roller being of less diameter than the drum and being located belowthe center thereof, a bearing-shaft extending into the roller with intermediate antifrictional bear- I ings, guide-rollers journaled within the hub,

said rollers being 'spaeed around the inner 3 In testimony whereof I have hereunto set circumferenceof the 'drum and having end my hand in presence of two subscribing Wit-' join'nals, disks closing the ends of the drum nesses. and having bearings for said journals, and E NOCH J. LANE.

' 5 means for transmitting power to the wheel Witnesses:

on the opposite side of the center from the S. H. OALLEN, bearing-shaft. B. B. FURY. 

